Saturday, November 27, 2004

Pronouncing judgment yesterday on my elementary school experience moved me to revisit my 5th grade diary this evening. It was so weird to hear what the guy in the above photograph had to say about being a gaijin kid in a Japanese elementary school that I have decided to include entries from it from time to time. It has been a real challenge to type it out as is without Word autocorrecting it, but . . .

月 [Monday] January, 25 [1988]
To day my teacher got out on the rong side of her bed. I whish she didn’t because she screamed and hollard all day. But after lunch she was in a better mood. May be she didn’t have a proper breakfast.

I didn’t get home until 4:30. I walked my dog right away and did my home work. Mommy gave me a money making chart. All I have to do is look up about 50 things in the Encyclopedia and read them and I’ll get 3300￥. I am going to use it on my invention. My invention is a pair of shoes that if I push a button springs will pop out of the bottem so I can jump around. I am going to add more things to it. (I was born in 1977)

About Me

Luke, a missionary kid who grew up in Japan, and Yuko, who left Hokkaido in her teens in order to study Biblical Counseling and Christian Education in the United States, were married in 2005. They have five children: Grace, Faith, Judah, Josiah and John. After a three year period of preparation in Canada, they returned to Japan as OMF missionaries in 2013. They have filled the role of ACC Director since the spring of 2015. (ACC stands for "Aomori Christian Center.")